The Chuvash power supply company reports the increase in the electricity consumption during the semi-final and the final of the World Hockey Championship – 2012 (it took place on May 19-20 in Finland). According to the information from the company, during the broadcast of the semi-final, in which the Russian team played with the Czech […]

Igor Sechin (See photo), who has recently resigned from the position of Vice-chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, is to become the chairman of the board of directors of the state-controlled Rosneft company. The corresponding directives to the board of directors of the company were signed by the prime-minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. […]

Funny incident took place on May 22 2012 in Sebezh (the responsibility zone of Pskovenergo), the press-service of the company reports. The Volkswagen Golf car knocked down the reinforced concrete transmission tower 0.4 KW of the closed transforming substation #631. Unfortunately this was not a unique accident but in this case the car turned out […]

The heat and power company Fortum announces the extension of cooperation with the partner higher educational institution in manpower development. In 2012 over 50 undergraduates are to do their internship in Fortum. At present the company has valid contracts with the higher educational institutions of the Urals and the Western Siberia – South Ural state […]

Novostieneretiki.ru report that IDGC of Center and Volga Region released to public the statistics of technical connections for the first quarter of 2012. For this period the company received over fourteen thousand applications for connection to electrical grids. The biggest increase was recorded in the category of consumers over 750 KW, which is first of […]

Another petition in bankruptcy from OAO Kubanenergo was registered by the Arbitrazh Court of the Krasnodarsk Territory. The Krasnodarsk-based enterprise OOO YugStroy, which bought from the affiliated construction company the chose in action of financial payment to the electrical energy company for the amount of about one million rubles, acts as a plaintiff this time. […]

The innovative method of the assessment of electrical grid readiness to the level of Smart Grid technology (active adaptive grid smart type grid) have been tested in Kaliningrad by the Yantarenergo company. The method called SGMM — Smart Grid Maturity Model was tested by the Kaliningrad power engineers in the course of the first exchange […]

Uzbekistan and Russian have signed an intergovernmental agreement on bringing into the Russian Federation the irradiated nuclear fuel of the research reactors, the source in the government of Uzbekistan reported on Wednesday. According to the document, the irradiated fuel from the research reactors in Uzbekistan is to be delivered in Russia for disposal and replacement […]

Minenergo of the Russian Federation approved of the investment programs of OAO Moscow United Power Grid Company (MUEGC) and OAO Lenenergo for 2012-2017. The investment program of MUEGC has been approved of in the amount of 274 billion rubles, the directive of the governmental agency says. Thus, in 2012 the company is to direct 37.4 […]

The northern rivers have started navigation and the company RAO Energy Systems of East embarked on the delivery of energy products for the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). On May 16th 2012 the TP-1020 tanker, which is to carry 1 040 tons of light oil products for the diesel power plants Sakhaenergo, moored the Osetrovsky river port […]